Westfield Eviction Risk: Lower

It sits 3.2 points below the Union County average of 6.6. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 8.3% against 17.8% nationally. The voucher gap is 16.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Court records carry 44 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.1/10.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 2.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Union Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.